The United Nations report 2019 warns of mass extinction. One million species might vanish from our earth within the next years. Thoughtless human action is largely to blame for this development. Margaret Atwood's novel Oryx and Crake, published in 2003, predicted the situation we currently find ourselves in. This paper is an analysis of characteristic themes in Oryx and Crake with regard to the warnings they convey to us as well as to future generations.

Lea Aures lebt in Rosenheim und studiert Buchwissenschaft an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.